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Tim Zagat

Co-Founder, Co-Chair & CEO, Zagat Survey

Biography

Tim Zagat is the co-Founder, co-chair and Chief Executive Officer of Zagat Survey. He earned an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1966 and a B.A. from Harvard College in 1961. Tim and his wife, Nina Zagat, sold their firm to Google, where they now work.

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Notable Success

The first Zagat guide, which was published in 1982, rated 121 New York restaurants with 200 participating surveyors. Today, more than 350,000 surveyors in 100 countries rate restaurants and other leisure spots for Zagat.